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HashiCorp Engineer II - Backend - HashiCorp Vault Secrets in United States
About the Team
At HashiCorp, we build Consul, Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Vagrant, and Packer, and we offer enterprise solutions for each. These are available as licensed and unlicensed binaries, cloud appliances, and hosted SaaS platforms. Our tools enable organizations of all sizes to manage any infrastructure for any application.
We are seeking an experienced engineer to join our Vault Secrets team. In this role, you will focus on developing the core subsystems of Vault Secrets, designing, prototyping, and implementing essential features, as well as ensuring its scalability and stability.
As part of the Vault Secrets engineering team at HashiCorp, you will contribute to providing reliable and user-friendly access to a widely used secrets management tool, catering to businesses and individuals managing diverse infrastructures.
What you’ll do (responsibilities):
Work on foundational backend features for our enterprise, cloud-native Vault product
Interact regularly with Platform/SRE teams on system, quality, and reliability features
Gather feedback and interact regularly with internal teams, users and HashiCorp customers
Work toward full ownership of design, testing, release, and running the features in production, and receive mentorship from senior engineers
Program mostly in Golang, learning from and contributing to a team committed to continually improving their skills
Work on issues and improvements critical to the success of HashiCorp customers and the broader community
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation that supports our critical production services. On-call is currently a week, every 2-3 months.
What you’ll need (minimum qualifications):
You have professional experience using Go in complex, production environments
You have a strong understanding of security principles and secrets management (e.g., Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, Doppler, CyberArk, Akeyless)
You are familiar with microservices architectures and ideally have seen microservices in operation at a global scale, including its active development
You enjoy working and have prior experience working in high-performance or distributed systems
You have experience or desire to scale new products
You have in-depth experience in cloud/SaaS development
You are excited to collaborate and brainstorm on topics such as performance, security, user interactions in complex systems
You have built or operated a large-scale/enterprise SaaS service
In the first month, you will:
Learn about the various products, tools, and the team
Meet regularly with your onboarding guide for pairing sessions and begin building the context around the work you will be doing
Have 1:1s with other team members that you will be working closely with
Ship out your first set of tickets for particular services within the Vault Secrets product and participate in regular code reviews
In month 2, you will:
Begin working on your first project, working towards an MVP, seeking feedback and iterating along the way
Participate in cross-team engineering design discussions, helping to enhance HashiCorp’s cloud offerings
Continue building your understanding of the product, as well as its operational needs, by shadowing other engineers through their on-call rotations
In month 3, you will:
Have an increasing understanding of opportunities available to enhance the product offering and some of its common challenges
Have opportunities to contribute and influence the technical product roadmap
Begin your on-call rotations to support the operations of the work you and your team members have shipped to production
Work with your manager to develop and craft a professional development plan that supports your career and builds upon your strengths
Build your first project proposal and shared understanding of its design, implementation and operations with your team as well as any related teams
What is our hiring process like?
The below serves as a basic outline; we may choose to add or remove steps based on the information that we gather during the process.
Introductory Call with someone from our recruiting team.
First Interview with an Engineering Manager
Interview Loop with additional team members, with the following panel:
Technical Code Pairing interview
Code Review interview
Communication and Collaboration interview
Systems and architecture interview
If applicable, a final conversation with the Engineering Manager for the team you would be joining
Offer
#LI-Remote
Individual pay within the range will be determined based on job related-factors such as skills, experience, and education or training.
The base pay range for this role in the SF Bay Area / NYC area is:
$151,300—$178,000 USD
The base pay range for this role in Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, New York (excluding NYC), Washington D.C., or California (excluding SF Bay Area) is:
$138,600—$163,100 USD
The base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro) and Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is:
$126,100—$148,300 USD